Women Make Film: Daughters Of The Dust, Jacqueline Stewart, Mira Nair

Daughters Of The Dust (1991) -- (Movie Clip) Respect Your Ancestors

As the Peazant family enjoys a reunion on St. Simons island, Georgia, 1902, grandson Eli (Adisa Anderson), contemplating a move to the mainland, visits with grandmother Nana (Cora Lee Day), who has firm instructions, in Daughters Of The Dust, 1991, from writer, producer and director Julie Dash.

Daughters Of The Dust (1991) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Gullah Communities

Opening credits with an introduction to the distinctive original score by John Barnes, then a prologue about the Gullah inhabitants of Sea Island, Georgia, the setting for writer-producer-director Julie Dash’s celebrated turn-of-the-20th century family portrait, Daughters Of The Dust, 1991.

Daughters Of The Dust (1991) -- (Movie Clip) Like The Water Was Solid Ground

Continuing the non-linear examination of the reunion of the Gullah Peazant family of Sea Island, Georgia, in 1902, pregnant Eula (Alva Rodgers), victim of a rape by a white man, speaks now for and about her unborn child, who narrated earlier in a female voice, recounting a legend, as her husband Eli (Adisa Anderson) finds the floating African statue, Ervin Green the minister on the beach, in Julie Dash’s Daughters Of The Dust, 1991.

Daughters Of The Dust (1991) -- (Movie Clip) I Am The First And The Last

Following a prologue on the Gullah communities off South Carolina and Georgia, director Julie Dash explores island life, with Philadelphian Viola (Cheryl Lynn Bruce) and photographer Snead (Tommy Hicks) returning to visit cousins Yellow Mary (Barbara-O) and others, in Daughters Of The Dust, 1991.

Daughters Of The Dust (1991) -- (Movie Clip) This Is The Seed Time Of Life

As family celebrations continue on St. Simons island, Georgia, 1902, cousin Viola (Cheryl Lynn Bruce), a fervent Christian visiting from Philadelphia, reads scripture as Yellow Mary visits with family matriarch Nana (Cora Lee Day), in writer-producer-director Julie Dash’s Daughters Of The Dust, 1991.